Smoke on the Potato Fields
94 mins
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.
Jan Faltýnek
Karel
Jaroslava Tichá
Ema Meluzinová
Miroslav Hájek
Editor
Jan Oliva
Production Design
František Belfín
Conductor
Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Set Decoration
František Fabián
Sound
Bohumil Nový
Assistant Production Design
Tomáš Urban
Assistant Director
Nita Romanečová
Costumer
Aleš Dospiva
First Assistant Director
František Zapletal
Costumer
Jana Goetzová
Script
Vlasta Ulbertová
Makeup & Hair
Vladimír Kalina
Creative Producer
Jaroslav Hruška
Makeup & Hair
Bohumil Říha
Novel
František Čížek
Makeup & Hair
Helena Lehovcová
Assistant Editor
Oldřich Železný
Dramaturgy
Jiří Pechar
Assistant Camera
František Uldrich
Director of Photography
Magda Hájková
Assistant Editor
Hana Hebrová
Clapper Loader
Jaromír Komárek
Still Photographer
Antonín Chloupek
Set Decoration
Jaroslav Bouček
Assistant Production Manager
Petr Hanousek
Set Decoration
Zdeněk Liška
Original Music Composer
Václav Nývlt
Screenplay
Ctibor Novotný
Unit Production Manager
Jiří Radil
Unit Production Manager
Ladislav Novotný
Production Manager